These puppets had their own little skeletons made of wire. Layered on top of the skeleton was their body/skin, which is made of silicone. The dolls had to be made flexible so they could be manipulated from shot to shot by the animators. The characters had a top and bottom part of their face that clips on allowing a wide variety of facial combinations and expressions. Coraline alone had 207,336 possible face combinations! There were different people hired for different purposes just in the puppet department. One woman was hired specifically to create the characters hair, which she used different types of hairs and fibers and layered them with glue and wire so they could be manipulated. There was also a team who focused strictly on the creation of the hands, and another woman who was hired to knit tiny sweaters - using knitting needles as thin as human hair!
"To construct 1 puppet of Coraline, 10 individuals had to work 3-4 months."
"For the character of Coraline, there were 28 different puppets of
varying sizes; the main Coraline puppet stands 9.5 inches high."
An outfit was never completely finished until the end of the movie (because of the rips and mud added as the story progresses)
Coraline is the first stop-motion character with her own wardrobe - consisting of 9 outfits.
"At one point in the movie, Coraline shows 16 different expressions in a span of 35 seconds."
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